As seen on TV : the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s / Karal Ann Marling.

Author: Marling, Karal Ann.

Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.

Description328 p. : illus., map ; 25 cm.

Note:Mamie Eisenhower's new look -- Hyphenated culture : painting by numbers in the new age of leisure -- Disneyland, 1955 : the place that was also a TV show -- Autoeroticism : America's love affair with the car in the television age -- When Elvis cut his hair : the meaning of mobility -- Betty Crocker's picture cook book : the aesthetics of food in the 1950s -- Nixon in Moscow : appliances, affluence, and Americanism.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-318) and index.

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